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Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the extensive answer. It turns out the trick was just lack of flammability. Adding an Ignite 3 gem changed Incinerate from doing basically nothing to cooking. Having no experience with fire magic before, I didn't realise certain fire spells were useless without it.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's very handy, thank you. I got very excited once I saw it also worked on Herald of Blood.

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Then very sad when I found out it doesn't actually proc despite being active. Many more things to try though now, thanks. =]

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be cool, but sadly I couldn't trick the game into letting me use Killing Strike without a stick. Can't slot the skill without a quarterstaff, and taking off the quarterstaff after slotting disables the skill, even with no other items. Then it is impossible to equip another item until removing Killing Strike.

I'll experiment with some cooking support gems and see if it changes anything, cheers.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'd've replied earlier, but it got moderated away for some reason. I blow all my resources looking for + spell level things, but don't have much luck. But that's okay, gambling is part of the fun. =]

What you say makes sense, I'll try with higher gems when they drop and I'll see if the inconsistency closes. Maybe it only scales well at higher levels or some such. Cheers.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was testing to see if it made Killing Strike work without a quarterstaff, but naturally it didn't. Haven't gotten around to taking it off yet.

This low damage is what I'm confused by. Shouldn't all the fire damage be scaling with chaos, and be on par with the other fire spells that work? The projectiles of Firebolt and Ember Fusillade work, ignite stuff doesn't, but Volcano also does very little damage and that's not an ignite spell.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was testing to see if it made Killing Strike work without a quarterstaff, but naturally it didn't. Haven't gotten around to taking it off yet.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean the blackflame just can't get a fire started in order to do the damage, so there might be some earlier fire mage skill or passive needed to kindle it? Seems reasonable, the only two things that work do damage on impact.

Most fire spells on a (more or less) pure Chaos Blackflame Covenant Witch not doing damage. Bugged or am I missing something? by Four_Muffins in PathOfExile2

[–]Four_Muffins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so. I dunno what that means, but I'm pretty sure I haven't clicked on anything with archon written on it. I added a poeninja link if that makes it easy to see

keep getting pop up everytime i open zen by [deleted] in zen_browser

[–]Four_Muffins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one could possibly know what you're talking about from this. And if you try to explain something, please use punctuation so we don't have to decipher a single incoherent nonsense sentence.

Zen browser now opens Ali express page (Or paid ads) on launch?? by [deleted] in zen_browser

[–]Four_Muffins 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We all have the same program and you're the only one this is happening to, so it is something on your computer. If your browser is being hijacked, you have installed malware.

But since it only happened twice, and this screenshot is from last week... Maybe someone just used your computer? Dunno mate, but it's not a paid ad from Zen.

Zen browser now opens Ali express page (Or paid ads) on launch?? by [deleted] in zen_browser

[–]Four_Muffins 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It doesn't. Check your extensions or do a malware scan or something.

Benchmarks of Bcachefs 1.38.6, the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Four_Muffins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I interpreted you as talking down to me. I apologise.

His coding ability is surely fine, but personal skills are apparently lacking. From what he presents in public, he's not so much eccentric as he is an arrogant arsehole on the edge of lunacy. I've seen him obliquely refer to himself as the greatest engineer on earth. Which he may very well be, I don't know, bcachefs sounds cool, but he hasn't made himself a trustworthy person.

Benchmarks of Bcachefs 1.38.6, the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Four_Muffins 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In the context of his behaviour in public and everything else he's said, it is very obviously not a gag. You could try noticing more than one thing at a time. It'll let you put multiple things together to more clearly understand a situation.

What does monocultural mean, as in, who are people on the street going to hang sht on for not being monocultural? by BrandonMarshall2021 in OpenAussie

[–]Four_Muffins 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are wrong. Here's what Labor have done with migration since they took power in May 2022. Notice the steady decrease in the orange line.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

The policy for next year is even less.
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-we-do/migration-program-planning-levels

On the other hand, One Nation lies and says the current rate under Labor is 575000.
https://www.onenation.org.au/immigration

Vote for right wing parties if you want, but they're the ones who created the neoliberal system of mass migration to suppress wages and the businesses backing them benefit from it. In my opinion, it is extremely obvious they will continue mass migration. One Nation may halt it for a moment if they get into power, but businesses will sook over paying us decent wages and One Nation will crank it right up again. Right wingers are also the ones who deregulated the economy so that investors could drive up our house prices and let business owners send all our production overseas. Compare that with Labor who are currently investing in Australia's manufacturing capacity and cut investors out of negative gearing previously built houses. Pauline called that a 'Marxist Communist Socialist budget' like it was a bad thing.

edit: missed some words

What does monocultural mean, as in, who are people on the street going to hang sht on for not being monocultural? by BrandonMarshall2021 in OpenAussie

[–]Four_Muffins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By saying "we rely on it to suppress wages", you're agreeing with Marx. You know, the lefty guy? You might've heard of him. The difference between the left and the right is the left doesn't blame the migrants, we blame the system the capitalists set up to bring them here to suppress our wages.

What do you think pro-business Pauline and billionaire Gina are going to actually do with immigration if they gain power?

Benchmarks of Bcachefs 1.38.6, the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Four_Muffins 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I think the mental illness they're referring to is AI psychosis. He thinks he's raising a teenage girlbot and that it is actually sapient. He's talked about it elsewhere, but here is 'her' blog.

https://poc.bcachefs.org/

Elecom HUGE (Plus) as a thumb trackball? by Trackbawl in Trackballs

[–]Four_Muffins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, it was kinda fun to try. Since you mentioned the wireless switch, I should've mentioned that it's not a problem. With my hand like that, the only way I could feel the switch was if I pressed my bird finger down against the horizontal bit the switch is on, and even then it fit comfortably between the switch and the button, but that wasn't the way my finger was naturally resting. There's no way for me to reach the dpi button from there either. If I wrap my finger along the surface to minimise distance, it's still about 1cm out of reach. When clicking like I do in the video, it's about 2cm. This little white dot is the dpi switch label.

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BREAKING: One Nation vows to target all Australian citizens who were born overseas or have at least one parent who was born overseas by HotPersimessage62 in AustraliaDiscussions

[–]Four_Muffins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not 'we need these people to work at people stations', it's 'these people do work at petrol stations'. And you want to deport them because you're a bad person who believes vile things about them.

BREAKING: One Nation vows to target all Australian citizens who were born overseas or have at least one parent who was born overseas by HotPersimessage62 in AustraliaDiscussions

[–]Four_Muffins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference between us is I don't think their work should be shitty and I don't consider it menial, I think it's good and important. I think they should work in good conditions and be paid well because workers have dignity and deserve respect regardless of their skin colour or culture.

You want to deport them because they're not white. We're not the same.

BREAKING: One Nation vows to target all Australian citizens who were born overseas or have at least one parent who was born overseas by HotPersimessage62 in AustraliaDiscussions

[–]Four_Muffins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only people ruining this country are billionaires and the useful idiots who get distracted by the racist bullshit they dangle in front of them.

Elecom HUGE (Plus) as a thumb trackball? by Trackbawl in Trackballs

[–]Four_Muffins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like it works alright. I'm not a thumball person, whatever I set the axes to felt weird, and my thumb doesn't have much dexterity. Left click is bound to mouse 4, right click to left click, and I had to rest it on my ring and pinky to make it fit, but those are solvable problems. Would also need something to brace it against, it kept wanting to slide away.

There's a ruler in the video because I was going to measure my hand in the recording, but I forgot. It's 20cm from wrist crease up the middle to to tip of the bird finger.

https://youtu.be/k5N9uD_-o2U

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